If your love is waxing cold, then your heart is becoming a breeding ground for every kind of filth and disorder.
Your love for God is not just a nice virtue, it is your immune system that keeps worldliness and corruption away.
Dear Pilgrim,
For our brothers and sisters in Northen Nigeria, every sunrise or day break comes with the promise and test of persecution. By sunset or dusk, many would have paid the ultimate price in death for the sake of Jesus without renouncing their faith.
As I write this, a missionary, nameless, faceless, uncelebrated and unheralded, ploughs through rural fields labouring in poverty to bring the gospel to unreached villages around the country.
Yet, these are not the kinds of stories used as examples of success in ministry in our so called "ministers conferences." For such men and women to the modern preacher, minister, or "culture shaper" must be a failure.
We hear the language of certain amongst us; "To share tracts makes no sense. It is running in the dark and tracts have no meaning. And if you are standing at a bus stop with a megaphone calling men to surrender to Jesus Christ, you are speaking to those who are hungry, poor, and lack insight"
The dialect is an unholy desire for which James called people adulterers and adulteresses. But they wrap it "Christian terminology" like seven mountains of influence and shifting culture. Meanwhile, it is an attempt to serve Baal and Ashteroth using the language of Zion.
A message favourable to the itching ears of a generation intoxicated on cheap grace and heavily steeped in immorality and unrighteousness. A manufacturing line fit only for the "abomination" called celebrity Christianity and incapable of producing true disciples of Jesus Christ.
I weep!! My heart bleeds!!!
Our altars are filled with calls for breakthrough, advancement, dominion, and wealth, but severely lacking in the summons to repentance, restitution, and self-denial. When the pulpit teaches that Godโs primary purpose for your life is your comfort rather than your conformity to Christ, believers will carry their greed directly from the pew into the civil service, the boardroom, and public office.
The tragic reality of the Nigerian Church is that we are institutionally large, financially formidable, but morally powerless and bankrupt. Millions gather across our cities every Sunday but when they step back into society on Monday the index of national corruption increases. What we have is an assembly of unregenerate religionists, not a gathering of saints. We have built high walls and low standards.
Hate on me and call me whatever you like, God knows I do not speak out of hatred for the church. But out of deep grief and agonising love for her. If the truth sounds like criticism, it is only because we have lived with lies for so long that light now feels like an attack on our sight.
A Gospel that does not demand death to self will never transform a nation.
May they that read understand!
@inecnigeria Hello @inecnigeria
Could you kindly provide an official update regarding the timeline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for individuals who registered during the 2026 exercise?
Many newly registered citizens are awaiting further direction on when to collect.
*Sequencing AI and Industrialisation in Africa*
Frontier AI is currently dominated by advanced economies, with the United States and China leading the global race. While discussions about AI often focus on models, applications, and innovation, a less appreciated reality is that AI is fundamentally dependent on energy and natural resources. The AI value chain can be viewed as a five-stage pyramid: energy; physical infrastructure (including data centres, land, cloud infrastructure, and cooling systems); semiconductors (chips); AI models; and AI-powered applications and systems.
The first three layers are particularly resource-intensive. AI requires enormous amounts of electricity to power data centres, while the construction of data centres, power infrastructure, servers, networking equipment, and semiconductor supply chains depends on substantial quantities of minerals such as copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt and rare earth elements.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global data centre electricity consumption reached approximately 415 TWh in 2024, representing about 1.5% of global electricity demand. This figure is projected to more than double to approximately 945 TWh by 2030, accounting for nearly 3% of global electricity consumption. Data centre electricity demand has been growing at three to four times the pace of overall global electricity demand. In the United States, data centres are expected to consume more electricity by 2030 than all energy-intensive manufacturing industries, including aluminium, steel, cement, and chemicals, combined.
Beyond electricity, data centres also require substantial volumes of water and sophisticated cooling systems to operate efficiently. As AI adoption accelerates worldwide, competition for energy is likely to intensify. Governments and private investors will increasingly face difficult choices regarding the allocation of electricity between AI infrastructure and productive sectors of the economy. Rising demand for power could place upward pressure on electricity prices, increasing production costs across industries.
These challenges are likely to be even more pronounced in Africa, where electricity generation remains inadequate and access to reliable power continues to constrain industrial development. Large-scale investment in AI infrastructure without first addressing these structural deficiencies could further strain already limited energy supplies.
One immediate consequence could be higher inflation as businesses pass rising energy costs on to consumers. Over time, scarce capital may also be redirected towards AI infrastructure, potentially reducing investment in manufacturing, agriculture, transport, mining, and other productive sectors that are critical for long-term economic transformation.
AI undoubtedly presents enormous opportunities for economic development. However, African countries should carefully weigh both its benefits and its opportunity costs before prioritising large-scale AI production infrastructure. Given the continent's relatively low level of industrialisation, AI development should complement, rather than displace, the broader industrialisation agenda.
Nigeria provides an instructive example. The country experienced rapid expansion of its services sector, which accounted for 57.73% of real GDP in the first quarter of 2026, while the industrial sector contributed just 19.11%, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This shift occurred without first building a sufficiently strong industrial base. The resulting structural weaknesses continue to constrain productivity, exports, employment, and inclusive economic growth. This experience demonstrates that bypassing critical stages of economic transformation can create long-term development challenges.
For many African economies, the immediate priority should therefore be to strengthen the real sector by expanding manufacturing, agriculture, mining, and other productive industries.
@AkinsotoOmoniyi Well articulated.
Africa still have a lot of work to do.
Powering AI infrastructure requires a lot of resources of which we do not have.
There's probably nothing more wicked than a church leadership starving God's sheep of the pasture of the word.
How can a church normalise the absence of manna in the wilderness of this generation?
7 Sundays of praise, followed by 5 Sundays of breakthrough and then followed by 3 Sundays of Business seminar.
Haba na!!
Don't people realise how jealous God is over His flock?
The sad thing is that people troop into these pseudo churches, and people are even invited to the altar to receive a Jesus they never learned about.
Judgment day is coming!
Hirelings and wicked shepherds will hear from the One who died to save His church.
A lot of people are talking about how to become great and teaching on how to improve your influence.
If you're a Christian, please allow the words of Jesus to shape how you define greatness and influence.
Jesus said the path to greatness is service, and he wasn't even advertising greatness. He was correcting the ego of His Apostles.
Jesus taught that good works and godliness are how we influence our worlds.
We are lights and salts when we act like God in a wicked and pervert generation.
It has never been about accumulating more followers and reaching the apex of your career.
And while these achievements aren't bad, we shouldn't define greatness and influence by these things.
So, as you hear the podcasts that prepare you for greatness and attend classes of influencers, keep the words of the greatest God and Man at the back of your mind.
"It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave"
- Jesus Christ of Nazareth.